The McKnights: Family’s YouTube Hair Tutorials Grow Into Major Media Business

Meet the family that’s built a small lifestyle media empire out of showcasing adorable braids and other fetching ’dos. In 2008, Utah mom Mindy McKnight started a blog, Cute Girls Hairstyles, to share tips and tricks for how to whip up perfect braids and other coifs for her three young daughters. The following year, she launched a YouTube channel with hairstyle video tutorials — and she instantly found a red-hot niche...